From: Camille persson <camille.persson@gmail.com>
To: Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to escape characters in tables
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:41:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim5+CLM2NXDY3wBQNAG9BRNwktY-mR-ZZ5tVEAC@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9966697.244AD%ken.williams@thomsonreuters.com>
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Hi Ken,
2011/3/4 <Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com>
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> On 3/3/11 9:07 PM, "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600
> ><Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|'
> >> character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to
> >> figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter
> >> between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't
> >> seem to find?
> >>
> >
> >I don't think you can.
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> I'm making slight progress, actually.
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> On StackOverflow
> (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mo
> de), it was suggested to use the \vert{} character escape, which does
> work.
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> However, since this is code (a regular expression), I want it to appear
> monospaced, so I'm not out of the woods yet - here's a test case that
> shows my intent:
> | foo | =m/foo\vert{}foodfight/= |
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> The \vert{} seems not to work inside a =...= construction. Furthermore,
> the =...= construction is problematic there because it conflicts with the
> start-of-formula syntax.
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=...= is used for code so it is printed as it written
You may use \texttt{}
| foo | \texttt{m\/foo\vert{}foodfight\/} |
I don't have emacs right now so I can test it... but it should work
CP
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> Ken Williams
> Senior Research Scientist
> Thomson Reuters
> http://labs.thomsonreuters.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-02 15:25 How to escape characters in tables Ken.Williams
2011-03-03 15:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-03 16:02 ` Ken.Williams
2011-03-04 3:07 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-04 15:58 ` Ken.Williams
2011-03-04 17:41 ` Camille persson [this message]
2011-03-07 17:45 ` Ken.Williams
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